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| 1 - 25 | Miscellaneous business and legal records, 1822-1881, including: Mail Courier’s Oath, n.d.; cashbook, 1822-1833; typescript copy of case, Regina vs. McCormick regarding Point Pelee Island, 1859; cashbook, Pelee Island, 1852-1855; summonses; and correspondence. |
| 26 - 36 | Personal papers relating to vital events, e.g. property, including, Regulations for Point Pelee Island, 1864-1921 and n.d. |
| 37 - 154 | Land papers relating mainly to settlement of title to Point Pelee Island, including: petition, grants, maps, deeds of partition, summonses, deeds, court documents, field notes, etc., 1847-1913. |
155 - 171
& 172 - 307 | Legal papers, 1849-1888, including: wills of Lucinda and David McCormick
(Pelee Twp., 1888), and letters and documents regarding the settlement of the estate of David McCormick (d.1808), Ballylisbredan, Ireland, 1808-1830. |
| 308 - 411 | Military papers, 1818-1842, relating to recruiting and supplying Essex County Militia. The correspondence is mainly between the Adjutant-General’s Office and Colonel N. Coffin. |
| 412 - 479A | Marine records, 1807-1875, including: daybook of schooner, Resolution, 1851; memorandum of courses from and to different ports on Lakes Ontario, Erie and Huron, 1842-1850; account book of schooner, Adelaide, 1835-1836; and daybook of the steamer, Champion, 1873-1875. |
| 480 - 2809 | Papers and records of individual family members, 1792-1943, as follows: |
| 480 - 495 | Alexander McCormick, business letter from his brother at Port Stanley, 6 Sept. 1841; manuscript copy of assignment of land in Colchester Township; personal letters, 1792-1823. |
| 496 - 501 | Ann McCormick, personal, 1869-1893. Two letters and three accounts with Pelee Island Wine & Vineyards Co. Ltd. |
| 502 - 561 | Arthur M. McCormick, postmaster’s records, bills, accounts, personal and business letters, 1843-1890; crown grant, abstracts of title, letters, description, 1867-1913; personal letters from his son and nephew, 1914. |
| 562 - 568 | Charlotte McCormick, personal accounts, 1888, 1891; papers relating to land holdings, 1884, 1887. |
| 569 - 657 | David McCormick and Henry Leighton, business daybook, Point Pelee Island, 20 May 1845 - 30 May 1848. |
| 658 - 1024 | Capt. David McCormick, personal accounts, correspondence, appointment as Sub-Collector of Customs at Southport, Pelle Island, 1879, 1849-1886; waste books, 2 vols., 1832-1840. Reel 1 ends with waste books, December 1833. |
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| 658 - 1024 | Capt. David McCormick, continuing waste books, 2 vols. 1832-1840, after December 1833; land papers relating to Point Pelle Island, 1866-1884, including bill to incorporate, 1868; personal letters, 1845-1859, including correspondence from Mary McCormick to son David, and from Charles Gale to David. |
| 1025 - 1030 | Elizabeth McCormick, letter to Dr. Hawkins regarding the estate of her brother William; appointment as administrator of her husband’s estate, 1803. |
| 1031 - 1043 | Francis Burwell McCormick, letter from his brother M. Talbot McCormick of Chicago regarding their father’s estate, 1866; deed of partition of land at Point Pelee Island, 1867. |
| 1044 - 1076 | John McCormick, personal accounts, correspondence regarding declaration of efectment from Point Pelee Island; appointment as Coroner, Counties of Essex and Lambton, 1835-1855; personal letters; commission as coronet, 3rd Essex Militia; will of James Howard, Colchester Township, 1828; letters regarding militia career, 1839-1856. |
| 1077 - 1128 | Lucinda McCormick, bond of indemnity; bill; crown land grant; deeds of partition; descriptions, 1867-1891; personal letters, 1860. |
| 1129 - 1444 | Mary McCormick, letters and papers relating to personal business matters, assessment, etc., 1842-1879; grant, deed of partition, and letters relating to land sales, 1847-1867; copy of last will and testament, 1860; personal letters, n.d., and 1816-1884. |
| 1445 | Peregrine McCormick, receipt, 1888. |
| 1446 - 1498 | Sarah A. McCormick, letters from her brother David, 1865-1869. |
| 1500 - 1568 | Thomas McCormick, statements and correspondence relating to personal and business matters, 1862-1882; deed of partition for land at Point Pelee Island, 1867; agreement to which he was witness, 1874; personal letters, 1863-1864, three items. |
| 1569 - 1800 | William McCormick, business papers, including appointments to various posts, statements of account relating to several of his occupations, i.e. representative, lighthouse-keeper, etc., 1815-1849; business journals and daybooks, 6 vols., 1792-1795, 1821-1822, 1822-1823, 1823-1826, 1831-1834, and 1831-1838 (Point Pelee Island settlements of claims); ledger no. 2, Amherstburg, 1835-1840; letter from Major R. Laughlan, Sandwich, about property, 1836; inventory of the estate of John Cornwall, 1828; papers relating to the Thomas McLaren estate, 1828-1830; personal letters and records from his military career, 1804-1851; journal of a business trip to England and Ireland, 1823; A Sketch of the Western District of Upper Canada by William McCormick, a native Canadian now in Ireland, written in 1824; n.s.f. cheques, 1864, 1866. |
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| 1801 - 2797 | Continues the section described above form item 1569 - 1801. |
| 2798 - 2809 | William S. McCormick, letter from Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress, about archival techniques, 1938; correspondence with residents of Gulliver, Michigan about family history, 1943.
Dr. William S. McCormick of Detroit, files of collected material relating to the McCormick family history.
The files are numbered on microfilm with titles and topics as follows:
- Hume, Mrs. Anne, Librarian.
- Fort Malden Museum, visit and gift by William S. McCormick. Article in, Amherstburg Echo, on 24 September 1942. Print of old Detroit, 1804.
- Colchester Church. Newspaper articles.
- List of members of parliament, Upper Canada, 1792-1856 by Helen Cornwall McCormick and article in, Amherstburg Echo.
- Pelee Island, maps, narrative of battle, post cards.
- Strouts, Felix and William (brothers), 1888 - 1907.
- Typed copy of will of Charlotte McCormick, 1921.
- Family letters (originals), 1804 - 1870, 1875.
- Typescript copies of crown grants to William McCormick, 1819.
- Thomas Arnold McCormick, M.D., 1945.
- Newspaper clippings
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- McCormick and Cornwall family genealogy, 1688-1934.14.
- Pamphlet: The New Settlement on Lake Erie by George F. MacDonald, 1918.
- Clipping: Battle of Pelee Island, 1923.
- Court papers: Regina vs. McCormick, regarding Indian rights to Pelee Island, 1865.
- Marriage record of John McCormick and Martha Drake, 1837 (photostat copy).
- Typescript copy of deed of land in Colchester from Joshua Cornwall to John Cornwall, 1818.
- Typescript copy of will of Mary Benedict Cornwall, widow of John Cornwall, Colchester Township, 1833.
- Manuscript and typescript copies of will of John Cornwall, Colchester Township, 1822.
- John Cornwall, biographical. Letters from the Office of the Archivist, Ottawa, 1916.
- Manuscript and typescript copies of the will of William McCormick, Point Pelee Island, 1839.
- Will and estate papers of Charles Cornwall, Colchester Township, 1895.
- Photostat copies of maps and documents relating to the McCormick family history, including page 1 of William McCormick’s journal of his trip to Ireland, 1823-1825; part of a note written by Charlotte Louise McCormick, giving the name of the ship on which William McCormick sailed from Belfast and the date of departure.
- Public notice of farm sale by William McCormick, Amherstburg, n.d. photostat.
- Mary McCormick, obituary (original and typescript copy), 1891.
- Alexander McCormick, family genealogy; power of attorney to Obediah Robins, 1781; deed from Francois LeClair, 1785.
- Mary Cornwall McCormick, personal letters, 1833, 1835, 1838.
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